Fig. 1. Representative AFLP profile of the 17 rice varieties obtained with primer pair E-AC/M-AG. The red rectangle outlines the polymorphic regions of the genomes in which sites do not exist in all of the controls, and the blue rectangle outlines the conserved regions of the genomes. The arrows indicate the mutation sites between mutants and controls, most of which occur in polymorphic sites within the red rectangle. The blue arrow shows a mutation site between 971ck and 971-5 which exists in the conserved region. (For interpretation of the references to color in this
figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this paper.)